Altair SmartWorks vs. ThingWorx

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Altair SmartWorks
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Altair SmartWorks, or SmartCore (formerly Carriots) offers an end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) platform. SmartWorks is available as Platform as a Service (PaaS) or on-premise, and designed for machine to machine (M2M) and digital twin projects. SmartWorks accelerates your IoT application development and provides simple scalability as your projects and devices grow. Altair SmartWorks lets users collect and store data from connected devices, build powerful applications, deploy and scale from…N/A
ThingWorx
Score 8.2 out of 10
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ThingWorx is an IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) development platform acquired by PTC in 2014 and merged with Axeda Machine Cloud in the same year, to expand PTC's development offerings.N/A
Pricing
Altair SmartWorksThingWorx
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Altair SmartWorksThingWorx
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$2 devicesNo setup fee
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Features
Altair SmartWorksThingWorx
Internet of Things
Comparison of Internet of Things features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartWorks
9.4
1 Ratings
17% above category average
ThingWorx
7.9
7 Ratings
0% below category average
IoT Device Management9.01 Ratings8.57 Ratings
Device Security9.01 Ratings7.97 Ratings
IoT Data Management9.01 Ratings7.56 Ratings
IoT Analytics10.01 Ratings7.37 Ratings
IoT Integration10.01 Ratings8.17 Ratings
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User Ratings
Altair SmartWorksThingWorx
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Altair SmartWorksThingWorx
Likelihood to Recommend
Altair Engineering, Inc.
Because Altair does not handle the area of automated marketing plans adequately, it is not as relevant in the implementation for marketing agencies, but this is easy to solve if you use an external tool to execute mail marketing campaigns, and thus also cover the project advertising, or send informative announcements about the progress of the project.
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PTC
It is well suited for situations where you require an end-to-end platform for pushing code and managing data and security of the IoT application. However, it is not well suited for the case when you want to scale the app up to many users and this requires more from the part of the product.
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Pros
Altair Engineering, Inc.
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PTC
  • Asset Monitoring - quick and easy to deploy, can connect to the plant floor and get real-time data from devices.
  • Analytics - The TWX Analytics extension has a variety of analyses that can be done into any data source input into TWX.
  • Alerts notification - you can program alerts to be sent via email/SMS seamlessly.
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Cons
Altair Engineering, Inc.
  • Since the service can be used to manage development in teams of various sizes, we can conclude that Altair Smartworks can be used in almost all kinds of areas that require code development for projects, and with this, we decide that there are no negative points about the platform that can affect our experience of use.
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PTC
  • Advanced functionality in control and data visualization often requires additional coding from the user.
  • Support and tutorials provided are often lacking in detail or are not readily transferable.
  • Mashup development works poorly on small monitors or laptops.
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Likelihood to Renew
Altair Engineering, Inc.
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PTC
We started more than a year ago and do not plan to replace it
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Support Rating
Altair Engineering, Inc.
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PTC
Experienced and knowledgeable customer support executives, Thingworx is a very large product and contains a myriad of features which is not easy to remember without enough training or hands-on experience
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Alternatives Considered
Altair Engineering, Inc.
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PTC
Well-suited - multiple streams from many data sources, highly scalable application scenarios.Good for a quick test of internet of things (IoT) connectivity and for deploying access via the web. Smooth deployment, easy to couple to devices. Easy cooperation with Splunk, which we use also.
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Return on Investment
Altair Engineering, Inc.
  • In view of the fact that profits have proven to be exemplary during the last quarter that we have been working with Altair to cover our operations, as our ROI has increased by 4.
  • In reality, results may vary depending on both how easy it is for employees to get used to the service and to deliver bottom-line profits, but overall the results are promising.
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PTC
  • Good for quick deployment of customer specific control of IoT
  • Good for quick test of IoT platform
  • Difficult to debug complicate system
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